overharden

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verb

To harden too much.

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Meanings

verboverharden (third-person singular simple present overhardens, present participle overhardening, simple past and past participle overhardened)

present singular third person overhardens · participle present overhardening · participle past overhardened · past overhardened

  1. To harden too much.

    [I]t has acquir'd ſuch a hardneſs, that being throvvn againſt the floor it vvould rebound, and vvas brittle like over-harden'd Steel.

    1661, Robert Boyle, “[Some Specimens of an Attempt to Make Chymical Experiments Useful to Illustrate the Notions of the Corpuscular Philosophy.] The History of Fluidity and Firmnesse. The Second Part. Of Firmnesse.”, in Certain Physiological Essays and Other Tracts; […], 2nd edition, London: […] Henry Herringman […], published 1668, →OCLC, page 286

Origin

From over- + harden.

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